Massive Gun Resistance

State rifle bans are in plain defiance of the U.S. Supreme Court.

April 12, 2013 6:38 pm ET

As the gun debate rolls through the states and the Senate, we can't help but wonder how Supreme Court Justices view the spectacle. What's going on is nothing short of massive political resistance to the Court's recent and historic rulings on gun control.

In 2008, a five-Justice majority found in District of Columbia v. Heller that the right to bear arms applies to individuals, not merely to militias. The ruling invalidated a Washington, D.C. ban on handguns. Lest there be any doubt, in McDonald v. Chicago in 2010 the Court...